Arab Spring

Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to. 

Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.

Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion

A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in Paris.

Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests

President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the 34th Arab League summit, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 17, 2025; illustrative.

Egyptian President Sisi issues orders to study a possible pardon for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah


Was the Arab Spring a revolution?

A decade after the Arab Spring’s eruption, the jury is still out about its effects

A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo on January 28, 2011

The Arab Spring is still playing out

It would be naive to assume governments lasting generations could be replaced seamlessly over 10 years.

A GIRL stands outside her family’s hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah in 2016.

Has the Arab Spring led to an Arab Winter? - opinion

There have been lots of attempts at democratic revolutions in the Arab world, but the good guys keep losing.

PROTESTERS CLASH with police in Bahrain during 2011 Arab Spring protests

Did Arab leaders learn from the mistakes before the Arab Spring?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The upheaval that was prematurely celebrated as a democratic outburst soon gave way to political regression, religious reaction, and international tragedy.

A PICTURE OF Mohamed Bouazizi, the street vendor whose self-immolation 10 years ago signaled the start of the so-called Arab Spring, is displayed on the post office building in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on December 8.

Ten years on, anger in Tunisian town where 'Arab Spring' began

Many Tunisians look back on the events of 2010 and regret that their dreams remain unfulfilled.

A picture of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor who set himself alight 10 years ago on December 17, 2010, is displayed on the post office building in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia December 8, 2020

What became of the 'Arab Spring'?

In Egypt, protests gathered momentum, and the army pulled its forces from the protests and Mubarak stepped down - to be tried in August on charges of abusing power and killing demonstrators.

A man holds an Egyptian flag during a rally at Tahrir Square, in Cairo February 25, 2011

What Netanyahu failed to learn from the Arab Spring

The history of the Arab Spring revolutions suggests that the recipe for regime change includes four essential ingredients.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu convenes weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

Hope and optimism should be key pillars of Israel’s foreign policy - opinion

While Israel has become a regional power with world-renowned defense and economic capabilities, many Israelis continue to feel the existential threat that marked our history.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech from PA headquarters in Ramallah in January

Sole success story from Arab Spring may be undermined by unemployment

Tunisia's revolution in troubled waters

Protests in Tunisia

Is Tunisia on the brink of a crisis?

The North African country was the one success story of the Arab Spring. It became a democracy and has not been taken over by hard-right Islamists or generals.

Protests in Tunisia